Elon Musk Quotes

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

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• People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • You
  • Very

• Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Understanding

• In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Worry

• Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Past
  • Yourself
  • Forgiveness

• I want to help people; that's it.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • People
  • Help
  • Want

• I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Hope
  • More
  • Going

• Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

  

  Randy Newman
  • God
  • Memory
  • Thank God

• It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Time
  • Balance
  • Yourself

• Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Different
  • Best
  • Audience

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Father
  • Me
  • Religious

• Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Different
  • Me
  • Animals

• If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Married

• I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Important
  • School
  • Education

• There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Friends
  • Laugh
  • Fair

• When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Believe
  • American
  • Dream

• If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.

  

  Jamie Moyer
  • Important
  • Consistency

• Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out that the patterns may never be finished. They're open-ended. In standard science this hit some things that most scientists have a negative reaction to. Science doesn't like perpetual novelty.

  

  W. Brian Arthur
  • Important
  • May
  • Science

• Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

  

  Germaine Greer
  • Woman
  • Failure
  • Achievements

• Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Sports

• Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.

  

  Alcuin
  • World
  • Heart
  • Art

• If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Important
  • Failure